Maybe it’s a way of engaging young children who probably associate the queen with Paddington, after the events of the last week. Also, hasn’t the beeb got a slot to fill on Saturday night after strictly got bounced.
Personally very happy and relieved I have the day off from work on Monday.
I won't be going in to London, but will enjoy being in my local group, drinking, singing the national anthem and celebrating her extraordinary life, and what it means to be British.
I can feel the faint watered eyes emerging on that day.
I was originally rather worried I wouldn't be able to watch the funeral and be a part of her mourning and celebration.
My dad is a gardener on a caravan site and he has to work bank holidays normally and no exception here, so has had to take a days leave.
The employer "may"* be legally correct in their position, but I would suggest they may have missed the mood music and that from an employee engagement point of view, that is very short sighted.
*if not already done, get your dad to check his contract for the clause related to leave - it may be specific about the treatment of bank holidays. It's not in anyone interest to go down a legal route but they sound like the sort of employer that would be happy to do so.
It was very moving watching the procession taking the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. Impeccably carried out by all involved. It must have been very emotional being there.
It reminds me of things you mention once you don't mind and people buy you related presents on that theme for the rest of your life.
She did one Paddington sketch in 96 years....
That said, they're brilliant films so I'm happy whenever they're on!
I now have the image stuck in my head of the Queen, as a young child, telling her family how much she'd enjoyed an enormous procession with everyone dressed up and loads of horses and military bands, and then for the next 90 years...
I've been watching the file past on tv and the queues outside are moving faster than in Westminster Hall. There seems to be a holding area in Victoria Gardens. The queue inside the hall has to come to a halt every 20 minutes to change the Watch.
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She did one Paddington sketch in 96 years....
That said, they're brilliant films so I'm happy whenever they're on!
Unfortunately mine was a ticket to a Charlton match
Center Parcs backtracks on Queen's funeral closure plans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62893476I won't be going in to London, but will enjoy being in my local group, drinking, singing the national anthem and celebrating her extraordinary life, and what it means to be British.
I can feel the faint watered eyes emerging on that day.
I was originally rather worried I wouldn't be able to watch the funeral and be a part of her mourning and celebration.
*if not already done, get your dad to check his contract for the clause related to leave - it may be specific about the treatment of bank holidays. It's not in anyone interest to go down a legal route but they sound like the sort of employer that would be happy to do so.
McDonald's is to close all of its UK restaurants on Monday 19 September, as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.
The fast food chain, which has around 1,300 outlets in the UK, said they would all be shut until 5pm on the day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62903404
Thanks for that.
This is the queue tracker
It will be interesting how the queue length changes overnight
How did they work out it might be a 30 hrs queue?
Even if doing 1/2 a mph the queue would be 15 miles long
I'm arguing with the wife.
To clap or silence for the procession?